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WOR  WINTERS 


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The  Magpie's  Shadow 


By 


YVOR  WINTERS    A 

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Bamet  Mcoroa  Collection 


To 
M.  V.  C. 

AND 

H.  B.  S. 


895 


O  saisons,  o  chateaux  1 


I:     IN  WINTER 


MYSELF 


Pale  mornings,  and 
I  rise. 


STILL  MORNING 
Snow  air  —  my  fingers  curl. 


[12] 


AWAKENING 
New  snow,  O  pine  of  dawnl 


[13] 


WINTER  ECHO 
Thin  air!    My  mind  is  gone. 


THE  HUNTER 

I 
Run!  in  the  magpie's  shadow. 


[15] 


NO  BEING 
I,  bent  •  Thin  nights  receding. 


16] 


II:    IN  SPRING 


SPRING 
I  walk  out  the  world's  door. 


[19] 


MAY 
Oh,  evening  in  my  hair  I 


SPRING  RAIN 
My  doorframe  smells  of  leaves. 


SONG     ;. 

Why  should  I  stop 
for  spring? 


HI:     IN  SUMMER  AND   AUTUMN 


SUNRISE       < 

'i.~\  '".• 

Pale  bees!  —  Oh,  whither  now? 


[25] 


FIELDS. 


I  did  not  pick 
a  flower. 


AT  EVENING 
I  ike  leaves  my  fret  passed  by. 


COOL  NIGHTS 
At  night  bare  feet  on  flowers  1 


[28] 


SLEEP 
Like  winds  my  eyelids  close. 


THE  ASPEN'S  SONG 
The  summer  holds  me- here, 


[SO] 


THE  WALKER 
In  dream,  my  feet  are  still 


BLUE  MOUNTAIN 
A  deer  walks,  that. mountain. 


GOD  OF  ROADS 
I,  peregrine  of  noon. 


SEPTEMBER 
Faint  gold!     O  think  not  here! 


•:         A  DEER 
The  trees  rose  in  the  dawn. 


[37] 


MAN  IN  DESERT 
His  feet  run  as  eyes  blink. 


1*8] 


DESERT 
The  tented  autumn,  gone  1 


[39] 


THE  END 
Dawn  rose,  and  desert  shrunk, 


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